Gilded Age - Immigration and Westward Expansion

Government policy that divided tribal land among Native Americans for farming.

• Pendleton Act 1892

• Custer's Last Stand 1876
• Dawes Act 1887

• Homestead Act 1882

What was the main purpose of the Homestead Act?

• to bring an end to cattle drives
• to encourage settlement on the Great Plains
• to build the Transcontinental Railroad
• to provide a market for steel plows

The process where one person or group blends and becomes part of a larger group

• cultural diffusion

• amalgamation

• assimilation

• cultural absorption

The theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market.

• Maslow

• Bessemer Process

• Free Enterprise

• Laisez-Faire

How did the expansion of railroad transportation most benefit farmers in the US?

• By raising the consumer price of agricultural products

• By increasing the variety of locally grown crops

• By providing farmers with affordable access to distant markets

• By encouraging farmers to form the first agricultural cooperatives

The transcontinental railroad was mostly built by:

• Chinese and Irish immigrants because they worked for low wages.

• Americans who moved west from large cities in the east.

• Indians

The Dawes Act was about:

• ending the "spoils system" with tests for the civil service

• Making monopolies illegal

• assimilation of the American Indians

During the Gilded Age, immigrants often lived in parts of cities that were:

• crowded, run down, and filthy

• beautiful and new

• spacious

• the most expensive

What are poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings called?

• Steerage
• Tenement
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Mass Transit

What was Ellis Island?

• An amusement park
• A prison center 
• An immigration center in New York
• The first capital of the United States